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Edgar Allan Poe c.1849

Edgar Allan Poe's image is now iconic, but few accurate representations of him were published during his lifetime. This is one of the last daguerreotypes taken of Poe, apparently from a sitting in Lowell, Massachusetts in the early summer 1849. Soon after, Poe left the northeast to embark on the trip that would end in Baltimore with his death. (This image is known as the "Stella" daguerreotype).